Men Can Bake

Baking a cupcake is easy as pie and no big deal. Add a little bit this, put in a little bit of that, mix, pour, turn on the oven, sit down and read another chapter of Robert Crais's Taken, and Voila! You get yourself a cupcake that looks perfectly tempting, tasty and moist but is in fact extremely hard to swallow and all willing to help you choke. The pâtissier takes another sip of his perfectly brewed Blue Mountain elegantly and blows out another happy, contented sigh. The sun is up. The sky is grayish blue. The temperature is not satisfying but acceptable. The air is just slightly tainted. And no birds are chirping in the half-bare trees. For once life is peace and quiet here in the friendly and beautiful city of Trenton, NJ. Thank God the shameless manslut who had all the potential to star in the newest season of Jersey Shore is forever gone. He gently puts down his fine bone china coffee cup and rests his cool clear eyes on the small navy blue velvet box on the antique coffee table. Now that there's no more obstacle in his way, he's pretty sure the woman he's secretly been in love with for so many years will finally say yes to his proposal. He toys with the shining diamond ring and smiles his polite happy smile.

Yes, sometimes plain simple flour is really mightier than gunpowder.